Screenings
Upcoming Screenings
Screenings
Artist and filmmaker Chantal Feitosa-Desouza curates a selection of shorts where filmmaking becomes a mirror for learners to self-define their relationships to education and power.
This program features two short films, the premiere of a new video commissioned for the Carnegie Museum of Art Film Series, and a feature-length film that all expand viewer’s understandings of what the tropics are. Dessane Lopez Cassell, New York-based editor, writer, and curator, will introduce the films.
Join filmmaker Judith Helfand for a screening of her award-winning film Blue Vinyl followed by a discussion of the East Palestine train derailment with experts on the ground.
This program explores the worlds of science fiction and fantasy, and how these genres can serve as tools to question and understand the world around us. Astria Suparak, curator, artist, and programmer of the 2024 Carnegie Museum of Art Film Series, will introduce the films.
This series of films will be presented by Amber Bemak, a filmmaker, artist, and educator whose work is based in experimental and documentary film.
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments pulled from 1,300 hours of footage shot over five years of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the historic South—trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race while simultaneously a testament to dreaming.
In this deeply humane film, director Manfred Kirchheimer takes to the streets in an ode to the men and women who earn their daily bread by diligently collecting New York City’s bottles and cans. These individuals talk about their struggles, their families, and their dreams.
In their final year at Muncie’s Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency.
This series of films will be presented by Mimi Pickering, an award-winning filmmaker with Appalshop, a media, arts, and education center founded in Kentucky’s Appalachian coalfields.
This series of films will be presented by a member of Scribe Video Center, a non profit organization in Philadelphia that seeks to explore, develop, and advance the use of electronic media.
A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvania town (Braddock, PA), where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges.
This series of films will be presented by Peggy Ahwesh, an experimental filmmaker and video artist.
Please join us in the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater for a screening of ExperimentalCurator: The Sally Dixon Story, a documentary that delves into the life of experimental film curator Sally Dixon, followed by a panel discussion led by filmmaker Brigid Maher with art historian Cash Ragona and archivist Emily Davis. Before the screening, Bill Judson will introduce the film.
